Sentence examples for painfully high from inspiring English sources

The costs are painfully high.

Telkom's call costs are also painfully high.

For American Muslims, the stakes have become painfully high.

Unemployment, still painfully high at around 13%, is falling.

Even with the programme, Caribbean electricity costs are painfully high.

The economy is still sluggish and unemployment remains painfully high.

But unemployment was still painfully high when his second term began in 1937.

Levies on wages to finance social security, health care and pensions are painfully high.

And unemployment, while still painfully high, has fallen a full two points from its peak.

But banks' base lending rates remain painfully high, at around 8% in real terms.

With unemployment at a painfully high 8.6 percent, it can't be.